Albert Einstein said, time is an illusion — an insight which hit home with me this past week.
While visiting the Toronto area, I stayed with my good friends and former neighbours. For 16 years, I lived in the house next door, after which I moved to the city where I spent 7 years before embarking on my new bucket list travel life.
So much has happened since I left that neighbourhood.
I’m not the same person who locked the door behind her and embarked on a journey of self-growth, self-development, and self-acceptance. A journey which culminated in me stepping easily and wholeheartedly into the life I’ve always dreamed of and am now living.
Yet being back there, — walking the familiar streets in the town where I raised my kids, going to the same shops I frequented for years, seeing familiar faces, and doing routine health check-ups — it felt like the past 8 years never happened.
It was comfortable, and familiar, and weird.
If I had stayed in the house next door, I wouldn’t be who I am right now. I wouldn’t have grown as much or as fast. I wouldn’t have had the multitude of heart-expanding experiences this past year has gifted me.
In some ways it would have been easier to stay. The routine, the comfort, the friends, the sameness, the knowing what to expect, the sticking to vows made with starry-eyed hope and idealistic romanticism, still clinging to the hope while living the reality. But had I stayed, I wouldn’t have been happy. I’d outgrown that dream. It was time for something more, and my heart was prodding me forward.
When I tell people I’ve been traveling for a year just following my heart because that’s how I’ve always wanted to live, so I decided to do it, they tell me I’m brave. Yet I know that one of my most brave moments was when I turned that key and dared to take that first step toward who my heart knew I was, and could be.
Time is an illusion, yes.
Two years of a pandemic felt both shorter and longer. I look at my kids, now 27 and 30 years old, and I vividly remember so many moments from their formative years as though they were yesterday. I wonder how they can be that old when I don’t feel any older than them.
Einstein said, “The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
In reality, there is only now. Your past is unchangeable. Your future is yours to mold as you wish.
Every Now moment offers you a choice to move toward your heart’s desire or stay where you are.
If time is an illusion, then life is a dream limited only by the dreamer.
Your heart holds the key to your happiness. Are you ready to turn the key and take your first (or next) step?
It’s your time, and it’s your turn.
I’m here if you need help.
How often has the voice in your head held you back?
What if the voice in your head were liberating rather than limiting? Confident not critical? Inspiring not intimidating?
Your Soul knows you better than anyone and holds the truth of who you really are.
What if the voice in your head became the loving voice of your Soul?
But with all the noise in your inner and outer world, how can you even hear your Soul’s voice?
Affirmations From Your Soul cuts through the noise and allows you to clearly hear your Soul’s loving words, affirm them to yourself and develop a deeper connection with your inner truth.
Affirmations are powerful.
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